Legal Opinion

John Charles Middleton v. J.E. McDonald Clinton County Sheriff's Department

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided November 8, 2004No. 03-3179PublishedCited by 21 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HANSEN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal results from John Charles Middleton’s attempt in 2003 to set aside a settlement and voluntary dismissal that he entered into in 1999 with defendant J.E. McDonald, representing the Missouri Highway Patrol. See Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b). The district court 1 denied the motion to set aside the judgment of dismissal as untimely, and we affirm.

Middleton, a state prisoner incarcerated in Missouri after conviction for three first-degree murders (which are unrelated to the basis of this lawsuit), originally filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action in 1998. Middleton alleged that…

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